On Nov 29, 2006, at 23:23 UTC, Fargo Holiday wrote: > I imagine that the case is similar to PHP, where they moved to a self > seeding model later, but kept the manual seed function to avoid breaking > older applications and to allow you room to experiment.
No, it was the way it is right from the start. Manual seeding is there for those rare cases where you need a repeatable stream of pseudorandom numbers. Scientists sometimes need this to make repeatable simulations, for example. Best, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verified Express, LLC "Making the Internet a Better Place" http://www.verex.com/ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
